Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after the gala twenties, when the oilmen and farmers came in droves. Now the money and water are gone, the land parched and worthless. All that's left is the dust--huge, billowing black clouds of destruction and death rumbling across the prairie. Production designer Michael Haller's re-creation of a Pampa dust-storm stunningly conveys the awesome power that often terrorized the dust bowl's inhabitants. When Woody sings in "The Great Dust Storm," "We thought it was our judgment, we thought it was our doom," it's easy to understand...
McKinney reportedly supported the students' basic proposals on financial aid and for the first time explicitly endorsed the creation of a GSAS committee to review minority admissions policy as well as draft the job description for the proposed minority recruiter post...
...even ignoring the shortcomings of the production, catharsis cannot occur in the show. Unlike Sophocles's creation, Antigona is not denying societal obligations to hold supreme her familial responsibilities. The Greek Antigone refused to acknowledge that there might be political consequences to her actions. The Latin American Antigona makes a political statement. Antigone acts in disregard of the state; Antigona acts to change it. Calling Creon by his name and not his title, she refuses to admit that the State might be embodied in one man rather than in the relationship between men. Antigona insists on fighting fear, the "putrid...
...Tech. Indeed, it could be heard conspicuously last week as 4,200 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science gathered in Denver for their annual brainstorming. Arthur Kantrowitz, head of Avco Everett Research Laboratory Inc. in Everett, Mass., came plugging, once again, for the creation of a "science court" that might help sort out "facts from values" in controversies that have been multiplying in the atmosphere of question and dispute. One of the speakers in Denver, Science Historian June Goodfield, a visiting professor at New York's Rockefeller University, welcomed public skepticism as a healthy development...
...only a modest runoff in sight, Oregon officials expect as much as a $2 billion economic loss by fall. The Pacific Northwest's forests are so dry and flammable that Oregon Governor Robert Straub has hired 400 unemployed workers to train as fire fighters and is urging the creation of a four-state regional fire-fighting task force to coordinate battles against the flames expected this summer...